Second generation sunflower

Hi! So glad you are here!  Today's card was made yesterday when I had out my spritzer and sunflower stamp. After I stamped the sunflower on the scripty EF (yesterdays card) I kept stamping it on another piece of whisper white card stock. I re-wet the stamp once (without adding any more ink) and stamped it 4 times. It is amazing how many times you can stamp and you still will get the image to print.

I really like the way each time it softens the sunflower image. I used the old world paper embossing folder on the daffodil delight panel continuing to burnish the edges with my scissors and then used the scissors to weather the edges of the sunflower piece.

I had a scrap from a piece of crumb cake that I had run through the die machine, I placed that behind the greeting. Thank you for stopping by! Stay healthy and keep praying for the virus to end!

Spritzed Sunflower!

Welcome! I hope that you are doing well and staying healthy! Thankfully our family has been staying healthy! I took out my stampin spritzer today! These are one of the best deals in the catalog, only $3 for 2 spritzers! There are so many fun techniques you can do with this under rated tool. For this card I ran my white card stock through the  my die machine with the scripty EF. 

I inked up the large sunflower with crushed curry, pumpkin pie and crumb cake, then spritzed it with water a few times and quickly stamped the image on the embossed piece. I didn't use to much water because I was stamping it on regular whisper white card stock. I kept the spritzer at a pretty far distance from the inked stamp. Give this technique a try and if you want a new fun tool to play with order the spritzers. You can purchase from my site if you do not have a demonstrator yet.  Let me know if you have any questions!  Have a beautiful and blessed day!

Ink blended sunflower

Hi stamping friends! So glad you are here.  I have not posted in a while, I have been in a creative slump. What do you do when that happens to you?  I usually look at my old catalogs and get inspiration from them. Sometimes I feel like a lot of my things end up looking the same.  Not sure if that means it is my style or if I am not pushing myself enough. I love the big sunflower from the celebrate sunflower stamp set. You will see in my next couple posts that I have been having fun with it. I decided to just enjoy the process and not focus so much on if I think everyone will like the card.

Wow, my picture really did become a true close up! Hopefully it is not too big! I white heat embossed both the flower and the leaves and ink blended them for a fun color pop! I love all these bright colors together! I had also white heat embossed the greeting but I didn't want to cover all the bright colors and so I cut it apart. Thank you so much for visiting my blog. I would love to hear from you! If you would like a holiday catalog please let me know and I will ship one to you.  Have a blessed day!

Celebrate!

Welcome! So glad you are here. Isn't this just the cutest sunflower little flower? Today's card I stamped the smaller flower in calypso coral, pumpkin pie and crushed curry. I used  my wink of stella to add a little glitter and to soften a little of the color in the petals. If you do not have a wink of stella brush, you need to get one. I think it is one of my favorite tools.

I used the stitched shape square to die cut the flower (the middle size). I white heat embossed the greeting on black card stock. The panel behind is a piece of crumb cake embossed with the wood plank folder.

I kept this card pretty sweet and simple!  I hope you are staying healthy and safe.  Don't forget the current sale is bonus days! For every $50 you spend in the new catalog you will receive a $5 coupon to use toward a purchase next month.  It does have to be in one order for the $50 + . If you have any questions let me know. There are not limits to how many coupons you can get.  Have a great day!! Blessings!

Creating a white flower

Hi and thank you for stopping by today! I hope you had a great 4th of July and stayed healthy and safe! I took last week off from posting anything since I was pretty busy and didn't really have time to create or blog.  The card I wanted to share for today is created with the  celebrate sunflower bundle. I know if you follow my blog that I have been using this set a lot lately! I hope you aren't too sick of seeing ideas made with it. My challenge for this card was to create a white flower.

I used my smoky slate stampin blends to achieve this. The center was created with several colors, mango melody, old olive and a little crumb cake. The leaves are old olive and mossy meadow.

So as I made this card I thought it would look elegant on black card stock. What do you think? Is a panel of black look classy or depressing?  I would love to hear what you think. I tried to brighten it up with the ribbon and mounting it all on a whisper white panel. Thank you again for stopping by today! I would love to hear any comments you might have. Stay safe, cool and healthy!

High Tide!

Hi! So glad you are here! Today's card I CASEd a card from last years catalog. Do you still have all the past catalogs? I love to look at them for inspiration when I do not know what to create. The card today is for the priest at our church, he is celebrating 38 years of saying "yes" to his call. What a blessing he is to all of us. I thought that the sentiment was perfect. He does indeed shine the light of Christ to all of us!

If you have not checked out the new in good taste dsp, you are missing out. The texture on this paper is amazing. I stamped the lighthouse with smoky slate and then added some of sand and plants around it.

In the photograph that I took I am not sure why it looks like there are "x" marks to left of the lighthouse (there is nothing there). For some reason it only showed up in the close ups. 

For the sentiment I white heat embossed and then stamped the light in daffodil delight, sponged around it to make the glow and then used misty moonlight to make the greeting really pop. 

I stamped the sand with more of the smoky slate and stamped off a few birds. If you have not know what stamping off is, you ink up the stamp and on scratch paper stamp and then stamp on to your project. It make the image a little lighter, great way to get more from your ink. For the back layer of card stock I used the old world paper embossing folder with smokey slate paper. It had a lot of texture and so I used my bone folder to gently smooth out some of the wrinkles.

Thank you so much for joining me today. I had so much fun creating this card! I am so thankful for all the priests who dedicate their lives to serving us and saying yes to God! Have great day and I hope you have time to come back and visit again soon!

Blue Sunflowers

Hi and so glad that you are here today! My card for today is a fun night of navy sunflower card. I started by stamping the large sunflower in night of navy on a piece of whisper white and on a scrap of white stamped the smaller one. I used my aquapainter to move the ink around on the smaller one but it was not the look I was going for. So I used my stampin blends in balmy blue and night of navy to get a stronger color. I left a lot of white spaces to add some contrast.

For the layer that I used behind the white panel I cut a piece of the in good taste designer series paper. However since a majority of it was going to be behind I die cut with my stitched rectangle dies a piece from the middle. Now I have that piece for another project. I want to hoard all this paper so this was a good way to not waste any.

I white heat embossed the sentiment and then fussy cut it out. I like to do that because then you can move the greeting around to fit where you would like.

I added a few of white branches, a little bow of white crinkled seam binding ribbon and then a few of holiday rhinestone basic jewels in night of navy.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Let me know if you have questions. I hope you have a great rest of your week and please join me again soon! Blessings!

Global Design Project #246

Hello!I hope today finds you healthy. I find one way to stay healthy (mentally) is to color. It is so relaxing. Now I know that may not be that way for some of you, so if not let me know what you do to keep calm. Today's card was from the new sketch over at the global design project blog. I had this small sunflower on my desk that I had colored a while ago but had not used it yet. When I saw this sketch I was inspired to create a card with it.

This is the sketch, isn't it fun?  There are so many ideas that come to mind when I see it. I think I will be making a few more cards with this same design. 

The card was pretty simple. Other than just stamping the sunflower a few times in momento ink I did have to mask the image. I wanted to overlap the flowers and so I stamped a flower on a post it note, cut it out and then placed it on the flower after stamping it and stamped the next flower. Then I would remove it and place it on the next flower. It really is a simple process. I like to keep the mask that I make from the post it in with the stamp set. After a while I do need to make a new one because the post it note paper is pretty thin. Thank you so much for stopping by today. I hope you give this fun sketch a try. Make sure to check out their blog to see all the beautiful cards. Have a great day! 

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Layered Sunflower

Welcome! How are you all doing today? Well it is the start of another week. Can you believe that it is almost July? Today I have a fun card for you. Recently I saw a beautiful card from Connie Collins, check out her amazing works of art. I love how she layered the celebrate sunflower and so I thought I would CASE her card. Although I did not put as many layers as her sunflower, I did add a few. I started by stamping on whisper white with crushed curry ink. I used my blender pen to move the ink around especially on the back petals.  I die cut the sunflower outline with crushed curry and attached it with liquid glue. I stamped the sunflower 2 more times with crushed curry.

The next layer I cut off the top layer of petals, this time I did not use the blender pen. On the last layer I stamped the greeting from the your grand stamp set in soft suede. I think the next part was the hardest part of the card. Trying to line it all back up again. 

The little petals that are right below the sentiment are a great resource for when lining up the flower petals. I used dimesionals only on the last layer.  I kept the rest of the card pretty simple. I ran a piece of white card stock through with the pinewood planks embossing folder and the bottom piece I stamped the large leaf with crumb cake.

Thank you so much for stopping by today. Give your sunflower a few layers to make it really pop. And thank you Connie for the inspiration to create this card. I love all the dimension that layering the petals gave to this card.

Ornate Flowers

Hi and so glad that you are here! I am sharing a card I made a while ago. The sentiment has retired but you could easily replace it with another.  I wanted to share this bright and bold version of this stamp. I do not usually purple paper, I am not sure why because I really love purple. But this ornate bundle of flowers looked so pretty on the gorgeous grape. 

After I stamped the large stamp of flowers with momento ink I colored it will stampin blends. I fussy cut it out but in the middle of the flowers I did not want to cut the pieces in between and so I used my daffodil delight stampin blends and it blended nice with the watercolor background. I used the amazing flowers for every season gems.

I would love any comments you would have. Check out the new paper pumpkin! So excited it looks like it will be so fun!